SUNRISE, FL - MARCH 17: Head coach Todd McLellan talks to Milan Lucic #27 of the Edmonton Oilers during a break in action against the Florida Panthers at the BB&T Center on March 17, 2018 in Sunrise, Florida. The Oilers defeated the Panthers 4-2. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali (C) of Team Bahrain-Merida celebrates on the podium his win, flanked by second placed Australian rider Caleb Ewan (L) of Mitchelton Scott and third placed French rider Arnaud Demare (R) of the Groupama - FDJ team after the 2018 Milan-Sanremo cycling race in Sanremo, Italy. EFE/EPA

Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali (C) of Team Bahrain-Merida celebrates on the podium his win, flanked by second placed Australian rider Caleb Ewan (L) of Mitchelton Scott and third placed French rider Arnaud Demare (R) of the Groupama - FDJ team after the 2018 Milan-Sanremo cycling race in Sanremo, Italy. EFE/EPA

There was a popular winner of the Milan-San Remo as Vincenzo Nibali claimed the opening Monument of the 2018 season.

Nibali holds on in Milan-San Remo as Cavendish crashes again

Nibali holds on in Milan-San Remo as Cavendish crashes again

Nibali holds on in Milan-San Remo as Cavendish crashes again

Nibali holds on in Milan-San Remo as Cavendish crashes again

The pack rides in Campo Ligure during the 109th edition of the Milan - San Remo cycling race on March 17, 2018

The pack rides in Campo Ligure during the 109th edition of the Milan - San Remo cycling race on March 17, 2018 (AFP Photo/Marco BERTORELLO )

The pack rides in Campo Ligure during the 109th edition of the Milan - San Remo cycling race on March 17, 2018

The pack rides in Campo Ligure during the 109th edition of the Milan - San Remo cycling race on March 17, 2018

The directors know where to find me - Gattuso awaits Milan talks

The directors know where to find me - Gattuso awaits Milan talks

The directors know where to find me - Gattuso awaits Milan talks

The directors know where to find me - Gattuso awaits Milan talks

The directors know where to find me - Gattuso awaits Milan talks

Uncertainty surrounding his future will not distract the Milan boss, who is just looking to continue his good work at San Siro

The directors know where to find me - Gattuso awaits Milan talks

Uncertainty surrounding his future will not distract the Milan boss, who is just looking to continue his good work at San Siro

Serie A: Gattuso awaits Milan talks

Serie A: Gattuso awaits Milan talks

The directors know where to find me - Gattuso awaits Milan talks

Uncertainty surrounding his AC Milan future will not distract Gennaro Gattuso, who is just looking to continue his good work at San Siro.

Serie A: Gattuso awaits Milan talks

Serie A: Gattuso awaits Milan talks

Champions League draw: Man City tie is a bus trip - not what we wanted, bemoans Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool and Manchester City paired together in all-Premier League quarter-final Barcelona vs Roma, Sevilla vs Bayern Munich and Juventus vs Real Madrid are the other ties First legs will be played during w/c April 2 and second legs w/c April 9 The Champions League draw delivered the tie neither English club wanted as Manchester City and Liverpool were paired in the quarter-finals. There was no disguising the sense of anti-climax from representatives of both Premier League clubs with Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and City’s Director of Football Txiki Begiristain admitting they preferred another overseas trip. Klopp joked it was a ‘dream draw for Manchester United fans’ – suggesting only the historic rivals of Liverpool and City could be satisfied now one of the clubs will be eliminated. Nevertheless, the meetings on April 4 and 10 – the first leg will be at Anfield – promise to be thrilling encounters given the respective style of the teams and approach of the charismatic managers. The champions-elect beat Liverpool convincingly at The Etihad earlier in the season – albeit the game was affected by the early sending off of Sadio Mané – but suffered their only Premier League loss at Anfield in January. Champions League quarter-final match-by-match guide Whatever the forthcoming double-header brings, few anticipate defensive, cagey affairs. “The good thing is we know more about Manchester City than we could know about any other team we could have faced,” said Klopp. “From our point of view we played one and a quarter really good games until we were a man down. City knows that as well. It is not that they thought we want to have Liverpool, so that is all good. One thing is sure it will be two very intense games. “When you think about the draw and you get the team around the corner where you can go by bus, you don’t want it. Everybody is a little like this. They didn’t want us. We all know about that. Our record is not too bad against City. We are not the team they love to play constantly, let me say it like this. “City is obviously one of the strongest teams in the competition but we want to go to the next round so it is not our job to decide how we go there , to take this easy team which I didn’t find and then another one and then you are in a final. And in the final for sure you have to play whichever world class team and now we have to play a world class team in the quarter-finals.” Leroy Sane celebrates Man City's fourth goal in the 5-0 win last September Credit: Action Images via Reuters Likewise, Begiristain also admitted he would rather be facing an overseas side. “It’s a very difficult one. We like to travel and to go to another country in the Champions League but it is what it is,” he said. “We know each other very well, they are a very offensive team, the truth is it is going to be a great couple of games and we are going to see good football. In the Champions League there is no time for mistakes, everything has to work, you have to be almost perfect in both games. Dates for the diaries | Four big matches in just seven days “We know the power and the strength of Liverpool – in the league they beat us away and we beat them at home.” The two sides are very well-acquainted, so much so that Klopp revealed he has already exchanged texts with Ilkay Gundogen, his former player at Borussia Dortmund who is now at City. 11:15AM The quarter-final draw Barcelona vs Roma Sevilla vs Bayern Munich Juventus vs Real Madrid Liverpool vs Man City Andriy Shevchenko draws Liverpool with Man City Credit: BT SPORT First legs 3/4 April, second legs a week later. 11:13AM Liverpool at home first Liverpool vs Man City 11:13AM Has to be City vs Liverpool In which order? 11:13AM Quarter-final three Juventus vs Real Madrid 11:12AM Quarter-final two Sevilla vs Bayern Munich 11:11AM First tie Barcelona vs Roma 11:11AM Giorgio 'shuffles the balls' Don't look away. It's on! 11:09AM Now Giorgio is interviewing Andriy Shevchenko Favourite meal: Steak Diane. Favourite artist: Phil Collins. Person he'd most like to meet: Vashti Bunyan. 11:08AM Thanks Pedro Now here's the star of the show from the 'House of Football': Giorgio Marchetti. Giorgio Marchetti, Uefa draw supremo Credit: BT SPORT And he's telling us how lucky we are that we can watch Leo and Cristiano. 'Thank you, Leo, thank you Cristiano.' Here comes Andriy Shevchenko to draw the balls. But first a montage of his goals. Appropriately his nickname, fact fans, was 'the Eastern Wind'. 11:02AM Here we go And it's Pedro Pinto telling us how the average goals per game in the Round of 16 is soaring. Goals, Pedro? Goals, Pedro? What a trad square. What about the xGs? 10:50AM While we're waiting What's your favourite quarter-final in Europe's premier competition? 10:34AM Good morning You lucky people. It's Champions League draw time again and an opportunity to be treated to Pedro Pinto, Giorgio Marchetti and, of course, in the absence of Esperanto, what passes for a common language throughout the continent: Ce sont les meilleures équipes Es sind die allerbesten Mannschaften The main event Die Meister Die Besten Les grandes équipes The champions And, because the final will be held in Kiev, no doubt Andriy Shevchenko, a winner in 2003 at Old Trafford with AC Milan and, let's not forget, a Carling Cup winner with Chelsea in 2007, the most treasured medal in his impressive collection, will doubtless be there, promising all and sundry of the grand time to be had in Ukraine come final day. It being a quarter-final draw, there are eight teams left in what passes for a hat: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Roma and Sevilla. It's an open draw with no seeds so we could get a Clasico, City vs Liverpool, Pep Guardiola could return to Camp Nou or the Allianz Arena, Liverpool could take on Sevilla again or Roma, who hate Juve for dodgy decisions turning the title Juventus' way in 1981 and 1983 when they were the two best teams in Italy, Fabio Capello and plain old North v South spite, could take on their old rivals. All will be revealed when the wee plastic balls are given a stir in the Perspex bowl, opened and the cards unfolded. We will wait for the cameras to turn to the suits who will mug for the camera and busk at-this-stage-we-can't-pick-and-choose faces while shooting daggers at the jammy gets with away ties first against the usual suspects with glass-jawed defences. Alistair Tweedale and Charlie Eccleshare went through the remaining sides and ranked them yesterday. Here is their considered, but wrong, opinion. Barcelona are going to win. Or Manchester City. Or Bayern Munich. Or Juventus. Or Liverpool … Pre-draw best odds Man City 3/1 Barcelona 3/1 Real Madrid 4/1 Bayern Munich 9/2 Liverpool 9/1 Juventus 9/1 Sevilla 50/1 Roma 50/1

Champions League draw: Man City tie is a bus trip - not what we wanted, bemoans Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool and Manchester City paired together in all-Premier League quarter-final Barcelona vs Roma, Sevilla vs Bayern Munich and Juventus vs Real Madrid are the other ties First legs will be played during w/c April 2 and second legs w/c April 9 The Champions League draw delivered the tie neither English club wanted as Manchester City and Liverpool were paired in the quarter-finals. There was no disguising the sense of anti-climax from representatives of both Premier League clubs with Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and City’s Director of Football Txiki Begiristain admitting they preferred another overseas trip. Klopp joked it was a ‘dream draw for Manchester United fans’ – suggesting only the historic rivals of Liverpool and City could be satisfied now one of the clubs will be eliminated. Nevertheless, the meetings on April 4 and 10 – the first leg will be at Anfield – promise to be thrilling encounters given the respective style of the teams and approach of the charismatic managers. The champions-elect beat Liverpool convincingly at The Etihad earlier in the season – albeit the game was affected by the early sending off of Sadio Mané – but suffered their only Premier League loss at Anfield in January. Champions League quarter-final match-by-match guide Whatever the forthcoming double-header brings, few anticipate defensive, cagey affairs. “The good thing is we know more about Manchester City than we could know about any other team we could have faced,” said Klopp. “From our point of view we played one and a quarter really good games until we were a man down. City knows that as well. It is not that they thought we want to have Liverpool, so that is all good. One thing is sure it will be two very intense games. “When you think about the draw and you get the team around the corner where you can go by bus, you don’t want it. Everybody is a little like this. They didn’t want us. We all know about that. Our record is not too bad against City. We are not the team they love to play constantly, let me say it like this. “City is obviously one of the strongest teams in the competition but we want to go to the next round so it is not our job to decide how we go there , to take this easy team which I didn’t find and then another one and then you are in a final. And in the final for sure you have to play whichever world class team and now we have to play a world class team in the quarter-finals.” Leroy Sane celebrates Man City's fourth goal in the 5-0 win last September Credit: Action Images via Reuters Likewise, Begiristain also admitted he would rather be facing an overseas side. “It’s a very difficult one. We like to travel and to go to another country in the Champions League but it is what it is,” he said. “We know each other very well, they are a very offensive team, the truth is it is going to be a great couple of games and we are going to see good football. In the Champions League there is no time for mistakes, everything has to work, you have to be almost perfect in both games. Dates for the diaries | Four big matches in just seven days “We know the power and the strength of Liverpool – in the league they beat us away and we beat them at home.” The two sides are very well-acquainted, so much so that Klopp revealed he has already exchanged texts with Ilkay Gundogen, his former player at Borussia Dortmund who is now at City. 11:15AM The quarter-final draw Barcelona vs Roma Sevilla vs Bayern Munich Juventus vs Real Madrid Liverpool vs Man City Andriy Shevchenko draws Liverpool with Man City Credit: BT SPORT First legs 3/4 April, second legs a week later. 11:13AM Liverpool at home first Liverpool vs Man City 11:13AM Has to be City vs Liverpool In which order? 11:13AM Quarter-final three Juventus vs Real Madrid 11:12AM Quarter-final two Sevilla vs Bayern Munich 11:11AM First tie Barcelona vs Roma 11:11AM Giorgio 'shuffles the balls' Don't look away. It's on! 11:09AM Now Giorgio is interviewing Andriy Shevchenko Favourite meal: Steak Diane. Favourite artist: Phil Collins. Person he'd most like to meet: Vashti Bunyan. 11:08AM Thanks Pedro Now here's the star of the show from the 'House of Football': Giorgio Marchetti. Giorgio Marchetti, Uefa draw supremo Credit: BT SPORT And he's telling us how lucky we are that we can watch Leo and Cristiano. 'Thank you, Leo, thank you Cristiano.' Here comes Andriy Shevchenko to draw the balls. But first a montage of his goals. Appropriately his nickname, fact fans, was 'the Eastern Wind'. 11:02AM Here we go And it's Pedro Pinto telling us how the average goals per game in the Round of 16 is soaring. Goals, Pedro? Goals, Pedro? What a trad square. What about the xGs? 10:50AM While we're waiting What's your favourite quarter-final in Europe's premier competition? 10:34AM Good morning You lucky people. It's Champions League draw time again and an opportunity to be treated to Pedro Pinto, Giorgio Marchetti and, of course, in the absence of Esperanto, what passes for a common language throughout the continent: Ce sont les meilleures équipes Es sind die allerbesten Mannschaften The main event Die Meister Die Besten Les grandes équipes The champions And, because the final will be held in Kiev, no doubt Andriy Shevchenko, a winner in 2003 at Old Trafford with AC Milan and, let's not forget, a Carling Cup winner with Chelsea in 2007, the most treasured medal in his impressive collection, will doubtless be there, promising all and sundry of the grand time to be had in Ukraine come final day. It being a quarter-final draw, there are eight teams left in what passes for a hat: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Roma and Sevilla. It's an open draw with no seeds so we could get a Clasico, City vs Liverpool, Pep Guardiola could return to Camp Nou or the Allianz Arena, Liverpool could take on Sevilla again or Roma, who hate Juve for dodgy decisions turning the title Juventus' way in 1981 and 1983 when they were the two best teams in Italy, Fabio Capello and plain old North v South spite, could take on their old rivals. All will be revealed when the wee plastic balls are given a stir in the Perspex bowl, opened and the cards unfolded. We will wait for the cameras to turn to the suits who will mug for the camera and busk at-this-stage-we-can't-pick-and-choose faces while shooting daggers at the jammy gets with away ties first against the usual suspects with glass-jawed defences. Alistair Tweedale and Charlie Eccleshare went through the remaining sides and ranked them yesterday. Here is their considered, but wrong, opinion. Barcelona are going to win. Or Manchester City. Or Bayern Munich. Or Juventus. Or Liverpool … Pre-draw best odds Man City 3/1 Barcelona 3/1 Real Madrid 4/1 Bayern Munich 9/2 Liverpool 9/1 Juventus 9/1 Sevilla 50/1 Roma 50/1

Champions League draw: Man City tie is a bus trip - not what we wanted, bemoans Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool and Manchester City paired together in all-Premier League quarter-final Barcelona vs Roma, Sevilla vs Bayern Munich and Juventus vs Real Madrid are the other ties First legs will be played during w/c April 2 and second legs w/c April 9 The Champions League draw delivered the tie neither English club wanted as Manchester City and Liverpool were paired in the quarter-finals. There was no disguising the sense of anti-climax from representatives of both Premier League clubs with Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and City’s Director of Football Txiki Begiristain admitting they preferred another overseas trip. Klopp joked it was a ‘dream draw for Manchester United fans’ – suggesting only the historic rivals of Liverpool and City could be satisfied now one of the clubs will be eliminated. Nevertheless, the meetings on April 4 and 10 – the first leg will be at Anfield – promise to be thrilling encounters given the respective style of the teams and approach of the charismatic managers. The champions-elect beat Liverpool convincingly at The Etihad earlier in the season – albeit the game was affected by the early sending off of Sadio Mané – but suffered their only Premier League loss at Anfield in January. Champions League quarter-final match-by-match guide Whatever the forthcoming double-header brings, few anticipate defensive, cagey affairs. “The good thing is we know more about Manchester City than we could know about any other team we could have faced,” said Klopp. “From our point of view we played one and a quarter really good games until we were a man down. City knows that as well. It is not that they thought we want to have Liverpool, so that is all good. One thing is sure it will be two very intense games. “When you think about the draw and you get the team around the corner where you can go by bus, you don’t want it. Everybody is a little like this. They didn’t want us. We all know about that. Our record is not too bad against City. We are not the team they love to play constantly, let me say it like this. “City is obviously one of the strongest teams in the competition but we want to go to the next round so it is not our job to decide how we go there , to take this easy team which I didn’t find and then another one and then you are in a final. And in the final for sure you have to play whichever world class team and now we have to play a world class team in the quarter-finals.” Leroy Sane celebrates Man City's fourth goal in the 5-0 win last September Credit: Action Images via Reuters Likewise, Begiristain also admitted he would rather be facing an overseas side. “It’s a very difficult one. We like to travel and to go to another country in the Champions League but it is what it is,” he said. “We know each other very well, they are a very offensive team, the truth is it is going to be a great couple of games and we are going to see good football. In the Champions League there is no time for mistakes, everything has to work, you have to be almost perfect in both games. Dates for the diaries | Four big matches in just seven days “We know the power and the strength of Liverpool – in the league they beat us away and we beat them at home.” The two sides are very well-acquainted, so much so that Klopp revealed he has already exchanged texts with Ilkay Gundogen, his former player at Borussia Dortmund who is now at City. 11:15AM The quarter-final draw Barcelona vs Roma Sevilla vs Bayern Munich Juventus vs Real Madrid Liverpool vs Man City Andriy Shevchenko draws Liverpool with Man City Credit: BT SPORT First legs 3/4 April, second legs a week later. 11:13AM Liverpool at home first Liverpool vs Man City 11:13AM Has to be City vs Liverpool In which order? 11:13AM Quarter-final three Juventus vs Real Madrid 11:12AM Quarter-final two Sevilla vs Bayern Munich 11:11AM First tie Barcelona vs Roma 11:11AM Giorgio 'shuffles the balls' Don't look away. It's on! 11:09AM Now Giorgio is interviewing Andriy Shevchenko Favourite meal: Steak Diane. Favourite artist: Phil Collins. Person he'd most like to meet: Vashti Bunyan. 11:08AM Thanks Pedro Now here's the star of the show from the 'House of Football': Giorgio Marchetti. Giorgio Marchetti, Uefa draw supremo Credit: BT SPORT And he's telling us how lucky we are that we can watch Leo and Cristiano. 'Thank you, Leo, thank you Cristiano.' Here comes Andriy Shevchenko to draw the balls. But first a montage of his goals. Appropriately his nickname, fact fans, was 'the Eastern Wind'. 11:02AM Here we go And it's Pedro Pinto telling us how the average goals per game in the Round of 16 is soaring. Goals, Pedro? Goals, Pedro? What a trad square. What about the xGs? 10:50AM While we're waiting What's your favourite quarter-final in Europe's premier competition? 10:34AM Good morning You lucky people. It's Champions League draw time again and an opportunity to be treated to Pedro Pinto, Giorgio Marchetti and, of course, in the absence of Esperanto, what passes for a common language throughout the continent: Ce sont les meilleures équipes Es sind die allerbesten Mannschaften The main event Die Meister Die Besten Les grandes équipes The champions And, because the final will be held in Kiev, no doubt Andriy Shevchenko, a winner in 2003 at Old Trafford with AC Milan and, let's not forget, a Carling Cup winner with Chelsea in 2007, the most treasured medal in his impressive collection, will doubtless be there, promising all and sundry of the grand time to be had in Ukraine come final day. It being a quarter-final draw, there are eight teams left in what passes for a hat: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Roma and Sevilla. It's an open draw with no seeds so we could get a Clasico, City vs Liverpool, Pep Guardiola could return to Camp Nou or the Allianz Arena, Liverpool could take on Sevilla again or Roma, who hate Juve for dodgy decisions turning the title Juventus' way in 1981 and 1983 when they were the two best teams in Italy, Fabio Capello and plain old North v South spite, could take on their old rivals. All will be revealed when the wee plastic balls are given a stir in the Perspex bowl, opened and the cards unfolded. We will wait for the cameras to turn to the suits who will mug for the camera and busk at-this-stage-we-can't-pick-and-choose faces while shooting daggers at the jammy gets with away ties first against the usual suspects with glass-jawed defences. Alistair Tweedale and Charlie Eccleshare went through the remaining sides and ranked them yesterday. Here is their considered, but wrong, opinion. Barcelona are going to win. Or Manchester City. Or Bayern Munich. Or Juventus. Or Liverpool … Pre-draw best odds Man City 3/1 Barcelona 3/1 Real Madrid 4/1 Bayern Munich 9/2 Liverpool 9/1 Juventus 9/1 Sevilla 50/1 Roma 50/1

Champions League draw: Man City tie is a bus trip - not what we wanted, bemoans Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool and Manchester City paired together in all-Premier League quarter-final Barcelona vs Roma, Sevilla vs Bayern Munich and Juventus vs Real Madrid are the other ties First legs will be played during w/c April 2 and second legs w/c April 9 The Champions League draw delivered the tie neither English club wanted as Manchester City and Liverpool were paired in the quarter-finals. There was no disguising the sense of anti-climax from representatives of both Premier League clubs with Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and City’s Director of Football Txiki Begiristain admitting they preferred another overseas trip. Klopp joked it was a ‘dream draw for Manchester United fans’ – suggesting only the historic rivals of Liverpool and City could be satisfied now one of the clubs will be eliminated. Nevertheless, the meetings on April 4 and 10 – the first leg will be at Anfield – promise to be thrilling encounters given the respective style of the teams and approach of the charismatic managers. The champions-elect beat Liverpool convincingly at The Etihad earlier in the season – albeit the game was affected by the early sending off of Sadio Mané – but suffered their only Premier League loss at Anfield in January. Champions League quarter-final match-by-match guide Whatever the forthcoming double-header brings, few anticipate defensive, cagey affairs. “The good thing is we know more about Manchester City than we could know about any other team we could have faced,” said Klopp. “From our point of view we played one and a quarter really good games until we were a man down. City knows that as well. It is not that they thought we want to have Liverpool, so that is all good. One thing is sure it will be two very intense games. “When you think about the draw and you get the team around the corner where you can go by bus, you don’t want it. Everybody is a little like this. They didn’t want us. We all know about that. Our record is not too bad against City. We are not the team they love to play constantly, let me say it like this. “City is obviously one of the strongest teams in the competition but we want to go to the next round so it is not our job to decide how we go there , to take this easy team which I didn’t find and then another one and then you are in a final. And in the final for sure you have to play whichever world class team and now we have to play a world class team in the quarter-finals.” Leroy Sane celebrates Man City's fourth goal in the 5-0 win last September Credit: Action Images via Reuters Likewise, Begiristain also admitted he would rather be facing an overseas side. “It’s a very difficult one. We like to travel and to go to another country in the Champions League but it is what it is,” he said. “We know each other very well, they are a very offensive team, the truth is it is going to be a great couple of games and we are going to see good football. In the Champions League there is no time for mistakes, everything has to work, you have to be almost perfect in both games. Dates for the diaries | Four big matches in just seven days “We know the power and the strength of Liverpool – in the league they beat us away and we beat them at home.” The two sides are very well-acquainted, so much so that Klopp revealed he has already exchanged texts with Ilkay Gundogen, his former player at Borussia Dortmund who is now at City. 11:15AM The quarter-final draw Barcelona vs Roma Sevilla vs Bayern Munich Juventus vs Real Madrid Liverpool vs Man City Andriy Shevchenko draws Liverpool with Man City Credit: BT SPORT First legs 3/4 April, second legs a week later. 11:13AM Liverpool at home first Liverpool vs Man City 11:13AM Has to be City vs Liverpool In which order? 11:13AM Quarter-final three Juventus vs Real Madrid 11:12AM Quarter-final two Sevilla vs Bayern Munich 11:11AM First tie Barcelona vs Roma 11:11AM Giorgio 'shuffles the balls' Don't look away. It's on! 11:09AM Now Giorgio is interviewing Andriy Shevchenko Favourite meal: Steak Diane. Favourite artist: Phil Collins. Person he'd most like to meet: Vashti Bunyan. 11:08AM Thanks Pedro Now here's the star of the show from the 'House of Football': Giorgio Marchetti. Giorgio Marchetti, Uefa draw supremo Credit: BT SPORT And he's telling us how lucky we are that we can watch Leo and Cristiano. 'Thank you, Leo, thank you Cristiano.' Here comes Andriy Shevchenko to draw the balls. But first a montage of his goals. Appropriately his nickname, fact fans, was 'the Eastern Wind'. 11:02AM Here we go And it's Pedro Pinto telling us how the average goals per game in the Round of 16 is soaring. Goals, Pedro? Goals, Pedro? What a trad square. What about the xGs? 10:50AM While we're waiting What's your favourite quarter-final in Europe's premier competition? 10:34AM Good morning You lucky people. It's Champions League draw time again and an opportunity to be treated to Pedro Pinto, Giorgio Marchetti and, of course, in the absence of Esperanto, what passes for a common language throughout the continent: Ce sont les meilleures équipes Es sind die allerbesten Mannschaften The main event Die Meister Die Besten Les grandes équipes The champions And, because the final will be held in Kiev, no doubt Andriy Shevchenko, a winner in 2003 at Old Trafford with AC Milan and, let's not forget, a Carling Cup winner with Chelsea in 2007, the most treasured medal in his impressive collection, will doubtless be there, promising all and sundry of the grand time to be had in Ukraine come final day. It being a quarter-final draw, there are eight teams left in what passes for a hat: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Roma and Sevilla. It's an open draw with no seeds so we could get a Clasico, City vs Liverpool, Pep Guardiola could return to Camp Nou or the Allianz Arena, Liverpool could take on Sevilla again or Roma, who hate Juve for dodgy decisions turning the title Juventus' way in 1981 and 1983 when they were the two best teams in Italy, Fabio Capello and plain old North v South spite, could take on their old rivals. All will be revealed when the wee plastic balls are given a stir in the Perspex bowl, opened and the cards unfolded. We will wait for the cameras to turn to the suits who will mug for the camera and busk at-this-stage-we-can't-pick-and-choose faces while shooting daggers at the jammy gets with away ties first against the usual suspects with glass-jawed defences. Alistair Tweedale and Charlie Eccleshare went through the remaining sides and ranked them yesterday. Here is their considered, but wrong, opinion. Barcelona are going to win. Or Manchester City. Or Bayern Munich. Or Juventus. Or Liverpool … Pre-draw best odds Man City 3/1 Barcelona 3/1 Real Madrid 4/1 Bayern Munich 9/2 Liverpool 9/1 Juventus 9/1 Sevilla 50/1 Roma 50/1